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Johnis 26and lives in Los Angeles. He teaches high school socialstudies, as he's done since graduating TulaneUniversity in New Orleans. Through writing and editing forthe arts and entertainment section of the student newspaper and deejaying forthe radio station, he fell in love with indie rock.

John wasmarried in June to his beautiful wife, Marisa. She's finishing her masters degreeat University of Southern California and has helped steep John inPavement's back catalog and the allure of early Liz Phair records.

After somemisgivings about the metropolis, John loves living in L.A., for being able tofind food from around the world on every block, for its improving mass-transitoptions and, of course, for so many concerts to see that it could drive him broke.John's an aspiring writer, but of fiction, not of screenplays.

John andMarisa have one dog, a chow mix named Halle; and two cats, an ocecat namedGigi and an orange tabby named Malkmus.